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Pokemon X and Y Leaks, Releases Early

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In the first artwork of Lumiose, you could see Looker and Colress walking in the background. Looker's confirmed, so is Colress in?
 

wwm0nkey

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Saw this on Reddit:

Expect to be able to max out EV on two chosen stats as well as bring another one about 1/4 way through on the diagram scale. Haven't got any solid numbers on individual stat or total EV cap.
Super training (the ball games) will be your main source of EV points, easy and fun. It is available from the start of the game in the lower screen. There are three difficulty levels with six games each, one for each stat. These games also reward you with bags specific to the stat of the game. When you manage to win within the set time limit in every game on all levels you unlock secret training, where you get items as prizes.
Maxing a single stat through super training can take as little as about 25 minutes.
Base training will give you punching bags you use beforehand that either give you advantages in the super training, like doubling the prize points or increasing your movement speed. Other bags can directly award you with EV points. These particular bags come in 6 variations, one for each stat, in three different sizes: Small, Medium and Large. Small gives 1 point, Medium gives 4 points and Large gives 12 points. Overall, seeing as you only have room for 12 bags at a time, Large bags are superior. Punching the default bags gives you bags at random and does not automatically apply EV points or the like.
Finally, one of the bags is called a Reset bag, it resets the EV points you acquired through this type of training as well as the ones gained through the traditional method of battle. It's easiest to acquire by just punching the default "empty" bag until one drops. The secret levels may give one as a prize too but its random. As for level 100, i cannot say for sure how it will affect them but super training will be viable for them too so reseting their EV should be possible. Trades should carry over fine and their EV can most likely be reset.
New guys, remember to always EV train as soon as you get the pokemon. For now i don't know whether losses due to late EV training has been changed or how much of the basics the developers has altered.
UPDATE: Went through every secret super training level (there are 2 with six games each) and have every medal that you receive for succeeding within a certain time-frame. No extra boost in EV, but you get relatively rare items as prizes plus a punching bag. The fifth game in the second (and final) secret level gave me for example a pp-up.
UPDATE 2: Edited the original wall of text and added more info. Don't you tl;dr me!
EDIT: Example of chart and maximum EV distribution for the curious [Small spoiler on the Pokemon]
 

Dawg

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Just caught a Pupitar in Y.

Also, npc's in the big city mentioned Gary wandering around Kalos. (kanto professor grandson)

Wonder if we can find him.
 
Alright. That's it. I've been waiting to see Mega Heracross because I thought that was pretty much it on Mega Evos but now that Banette and Manectric are in the mix (two of my favorite mons from that generation) and even fucking Pincer (a Pokemon that's needed an evo for damn near 20 years) I think it's time for me to bail out and at least leave one or two things to discover during my own playthrough.
 

Teknoman

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IMO it has the best battle themes in the series, and it's the ones I love the most in jRPGs usually so I am very satisfied.

Right there with ya. I still cant get the legendary theme out of my head. Also they even remixed classic wild pokemon theme for the birds.
 

Berordn

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So in Gen V we had Looker and Cynthia return, not counting all the cameos we had in the PWT.

In Gen VI, Looker and Blue? I can dig.
 
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Cant choose between x or Y.

Mega Charizard X or Tyranitar, hardest pokemon decision I've ever had to make.

I'll make it easier.

You can trade with another player for Tyranitar later on.

When you receive Charizard from the professor in Pokémon X, he gives you a Mega Stone specific to that version. It's still unclear where you'll be able to get that stone any other way.
 
I'm confused. Is Mega Aggron exclusive to Y or X?

the aron line is exclusive to X, but the stone you need to mega evolve it is found in Y. Vice versa for Tyranitar, so you'll need to trade with someone.


Does anyone know of any stores in New England that are selling the game early?
 
I reckon the 25 minutes estimate is incorrect. I can fully EV in previous gens within 30 minutes. :lol


That's with pokerus and power items though. I wonder if they'll work with Super Training. I'm also guessing that traditional Ev training will be harder this gen. With a lot more pokemon diversity, I doubt there will be many grass patches with only the specific EV you want.
 

Quest1

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I'm delusional yes, but I want Blue to show up in the game somewhere, battle you, and activate his mega... Arcanine. Sigh... One can only dream.
 
Nah, they'll hold em till the Ruby and Sapphire remakes.

I told you to stop assuming.

It was a safe assumption since Gamefreak had made Banette worse with eevery interaction. I dolt care though, I'll love MBanette even if he is ugly. I can always reverse him back.

There's not a catchable Shuppet or Banette on the game as far as I know. Maybe he is another Halloween event.
 

MechaX

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For what it's worth, it seems like it would be a lot more of a hassle to get Tyranitar in X (had to breed them in Black&White/Ver 2, so you'd have to go back to like HG/SS) than it would be to get Aggron in Y (plop an Aggron line in Y from Ver 2).

Still doesn't make it any less harder of a choice between versions for me.
 

dc89

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Well going sleep with the knowledge I now have a pikachu and Azurill (spelling?) is pretty awesome.

I love how there's such a variety early on, and some pretty desirable ones too.

Any one have an idea of how many you can catch in X & Y without the need to transfer from the other games?
 
Weather inducing abilities got nerfed. Dragons are forever dragons, even if they have a direct counter now.

5(?) turns of Sun, plus the SpAtk boost is still surely enough time for a nice sweep. Plus, you can just renew the weather by switching in again later if you switch out?

Also, does't Charizard have a much deeper Special Move pool?
 

Dawg

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I'm delusional yes, but I want Blue to show up in the game somewhere, battle you, and activate his mega... Arcanine. Sigh... One can only dream.

As I said, an npc mentioned Professor Oak's grandson. Apparently, he passed through lumiose city and he's travelling through Kalos.

I really hope we can find him and battle him.
 
5(?) turns of Sun, plus the SpAtk boost is still surely enough time for a nice sweep. Plus, you can just renew the weather by switching in again later if you switch out?

Also, does't Charizard have a much deeper Special Move pool?
Plus Charizard can learn Solarbeam, which is only one turn under a Drought.

He has to survive to do that. Stealth Rock is still a thing.
Stealth Rock also got nerfed, didn't it?
 
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